Maryland · Nonprofit
THE MARTIN POLLAK PROJECT INC
THE MARTIN POLLAK PROJECT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,110 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($53,390). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $918k
What The Martin Pollak Project Inc does
Mission
Community, family, child and transitional age youth centered treatment and development programs to ameliorate effects of trauma and support wellbeing, resiliency and psychosocial success of those served in the Baltimore metropolitan area. Participation with residents and professionals in building collaborative community capacity to respond with prevention and intervention services is our goal. Foster parents, unpaid tutors' mentors, full time agency staff, multi-disciplinary interns participate in our agency efforts to provide services and support to youth and families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Treatment Foster Care The Martin Pollak Project (MPP) (TFC) serves foster children and youth who have experienced complex developmental trauma via significant Child Maltreatment and are adjudicated to foster care for protection and healing. Extensive and acute psychiatric symptoms as well as social / emotional / behavioral disturbances characterize their service needs. MPP Social Workers lead and coordinate treatment teams including MPP resource parents all pursuing permanency for children. Emblematic of MPP success is the MPP resource family that adopted 4 children over a 4-year period. Exceptional professional in-service training, skill and commitment allowed the staff to exceed the previous year in total children achieving permanency in all categories. MPP TFC has also maintained excellent staff retention, and zero resignations for 4 years running due to the intentional Learning Organization professional culture. During this reporting period MPP TFC had 4 reunifications with a biological parent,3 adoptions, and assumptions of custody & guardianship. TFC maintained a Clinical Quality Assurance Performance process which eliminated change of placements within our program.
$1,196,114 spentof which $373,653 as grants$1,585,865 earned by the program63% of program spendingIndependent Living The Martin Pollak Project, Inc. (MPP} Independent Living Program (ILP) serves youth in foster care from 17 to 21 years of age. The average census was 22 and all received individualized life skills training, hands on support in community supporting youth's educational, vocational, and social objectives. Providing each youth an single apartment enables the program emphasis of living on your own. Each youth is given a strength based psychiatric evaluation and medication management at admission. Each participant is offered and referred for mental health services as needed. Individualized health promotion and self-care psycho-educational processes, embedded psychotherapeutic mental health services, formal policy driven support for LGBTQIA+ young adults, academic advocacy/ repair and facilitation of community based vocational rehabilitation services are among program services. ILP provided 3 community-based events, i.e. bowling party, picnic, and a sports event outing. All events included invitations to the participants' families. A evidence based S.E.L.F. Group Curriculum is employed with the ILP Young Adults. This psychoeducational group continues to get very…
$690,801 spentof which $215,798 as grants$805,656 earned by the program37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,886,915.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.0M to $2.5M (+23%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 97% · 2020 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE MARTIN POLLAK PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Richard Norman
Secretary/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $800.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE MARTIN POLLAK PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE MARTIN POLLAK PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of THE MARTIN POLLAK PROJECT INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE MARTIN POLLAK PROJECT INC's revenue fell 26% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MARTIN POLLAK PROJECT INC?
- THE MARTIN POLLAK PROJECT INC (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,110 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($53,390). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MARTIN POLLAK PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $60,110 in grants to THE MARTIN POLLAK PROJECT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MARTIN POLLAK PROJECT INC?
- Annie E Casey Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $53,390 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MARTIN POLLAK PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing